About This Image

With photographers' names reversed out of negative. The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, the art academy of Venice, from which it became independent in 1879, and for which the Ponte dell'Accademia and the Accademia boat landing station for the vaporetto water bus are named. The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili.

Francesco Bonaldi & Tarreghetta were an early photography duo that took photographs of Venice. Not much is known of them. Becchetti and Zannier do list them. Their prints exhibited the transition between salt and dilute albumen prints. Bonaldi was apparently active from 1852-1868, but we've only found work from 1855. Their studio was located at S. Marco Corte dei Balloni, N. 207, Venezia (Venice).

In Venice, Bonaldi worked in partnership with Tarreghetta and then with Giuseppe Bettini (Calle del Cavalletto 1099), with whom he made a series of stereoscopic views. Bonaldi was in Udine in 1859-60, then returned to Venice; March 22, 1868 he documented the tralazione ash Daniele Manin with a series of images made in St. Mark's Square. The 1902 Guida Commerciale di Venezia under "Photographs on enamel" reports the presence of Francesco Bonaldi at S. Luca, rio Terrà S. Paternian 4245 A.

We have been able to locate only two other holdings of the partner's work: seven prints in the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and one in Italy. The work is apparently quite rare and usually found in poor faded condition, if the photographs in the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum are any indication. The photograph offered here is quite strong and in fine condition.

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